Capcom’s online RPG Deep Down, exclusive to the PS4, will be F2P, Sony Worldwide boss Shuhei Yoshida tweeted last night from TGS. He also said the game will go into open beta near the new system’s launch in Japan in February. See Deep Down gameplay footage from TGS here.

The free-to-play spin-offs keep on coming. EA has announced Heroes of Dragon Age, a Dragon Age mobile spin-off set in the world of BioWare’s popular fantasy RPG series. More info and first screens after the break.

The recent Game Monetization Summit in San Francisco saw panels delve into the topics of casual gaming, mechanics that keeps gamers playing, transmedia marketing, online gambling, monetization strategies and in-game advertising, a great deal of which touched on free-to-play.

Playnomics has released a report on user engagement with social games. The audience management firm discovered that 85% of players in the US didn’t return to a social game after their first day of play.

Ubisoft has released its first content expansion for free-to-play tactical shooter, Ghost Recon Online. The Arctic Pack features a new conquest map and a host of new weapon and equipment variants. All of the content is available via either in-game or premium currency. Full content list detailed through the break.

A new patch for Dota 2 has been released by Valve, adding new features and bug fixes to the beta. The most notable ones are the inclusion of three new playable heroes, and the ability to watch replays via URL. You can view the entire list of fixes below.

Capcom’s online RPG Deep Down, exclusive to the PS4, will be F2P, Sony Worldwide boss Shuhei Yoshida tweeted last night from TGS. He also said the game will go into open beta near the new system’s launch in Japan in February. See Deep Down gameplay footage from TGS here.

The free-to-play spin-offs keep on coming. EA has announced Heroes of Dragon Age, a Dragon Age mobile spin-off set in the world of BioWare’s popular fantasy RPG series. More info and first screens after the break.

The recent Game Monetization Summit in San Francisco saw panels delve into the topics of casual gaming, mechanics that keeps gamers playing, transmedia marketing, online gambling, monetization strategies and in-game advertising, a great deal of which touched on free-to-play.

Playnomics has released a report on user engagement with social games. The audience management firm discovered that 85% of players in the US didn’t return to a social game after their first day of play.

Ubisoft has released its first content expansion for free-to-play tactical shooter, Ghost Recon Online. The Arctic Pack features a new conquest map and a host of new weapon and equipment variants. All of the content is available via either in-game or premium currency. Full content list detailed through the break.

A new patch for Dota 2 has been released by Valve, adding new features and bug fixes to the beta. The most notable ones are the inclusion of three new playable heroes, and the ability to watch replays via URL. You can view the entire list of fixes below.

Free-to-play games are one step closer to world domination. Aeria Games, the publisher of WolfTeam and Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine, among others, has just signed a deal with EA to bring the Play4Free titles to a wider audience.

Spicy Horse studio head, American McGee has said that Alice: Madness Returns “may be the last retail box product that we do for some time.” However, he has an idea or two about Alice 3, should EA ever choose to make it.

Australian web game developer Soap Creative, in conjunction with Microsoft and Namco Bandai, has created The World’s Biggest Pac-Man, a web-based, free-to-play update of everyone’s favourite dot-gobbler. With over 1,300 user-created mazes, economic productivity is likely to take a hit today.

What’s the solution to all of life’s problems? Ask someone in the modern gaming industry, and they’ll give you three simple words: free-to-play. Speakers at the GameON finance conference in Toronto, however, see it as less like a cakewalk or taking candy from a baby and more like curing the resulting diabetes.

With Champions Online going free-to-play on January 25, Cryptic thought this would be the perfect time to post an FAQ regarding the new business model. If you have been playing since launch or just getting started on it, you may want to hit it up.